Any other North siders WOW Cable out ? they told me the area had an outage [duh] but no idea why or when it would be fixed.

No. But we were having problems over Memorial Weekend. Lost all internet and digital channels. It sucked.

our power was out for 2 hours tuesday night...heard the loud 'pop' of a fuse in the neighbor's green box in the back yard...

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Originally posted by Arten:
Any other North siders WOW Cable out ? they told me the area had an outage [duh] but no idea why or when it would be fixed.

The wife was grumbing about outages recently.

We've been going on 3 days no with no internet at home and the cable TV signal has also degraded. Wife called yesterday and they're sending out a service tech.......On SATURDAY

Are people still experiencing outages? It seems we lose our internet a few times a day. I can usually reset the cable modem and it kicks back on.

After decades of reliable service, my SBC DSL has been on the fritz for the last two days. Anybody else have that problem?

Clam, I am glad to report, I have not had a problem with my dsl for quite some time. Us South siders are not having any problems.....

Another reason to hate you....

It is probably because SBC just got done signing that deal with Jesse Jackson to provide internet access and computers for the poor and SBC thinks the deal was for all "South Siders" even us in GE......They will not abandon all south siders......

Well, the WOW has been stone dead at home all week.

It's beem out today since early this a.m.

FYI, I should post a resolution of my cable "problem". As expected, the tech claimed it was all the fault of the way teh cable is run from my box to my computer. From a splitter in the WOW box, it runs to my attic, through a three-way splitter, to my basement, through a two way splitter, and to my computer modem.

So the tech (I wasn't there at the time) logged onto a website that shows the strength of signal received and the strength of signal sent. He said the problem was that the strength of signal sent was greater than 50dB (it was at 55dB) and that it shouldnt' even be working. The remedy he said was to run a line directly from the splitter in the WOW box to my modem.

Like a jackass, I took his word for it. Went to ACE, bought 75' of RG-6U wire, hooked to the tap in the WOW box, drilled a hole in my attached garage wall, ran it straight over the cable modem. Result? Reading went from 55dB to 51dB. By his statement, the darn thing shouldn't even be working (but it is). Bottom line is - these knuckleheads don't know diddly. Next step, complain about the strenght of signal at the box.

What I should have done, if I'd been there and had my head thinking straight, was have the tech run a temporary line outside and through the window and see what the result was.

No outages since the new wire, however. But the saga continues...................

87 - The wife has reported that the Fans have had an outage since 11am.